Happy Identity Management Day!

Identity Management Day is an important initiative aimed at educating business and IT decision makers on the criticality of identity management and best practices for safeguarding identities and access credentials. The National Cybersecurity Alliance and IDSA provide guidance to ensure the protection of identities employees, machines, application, and partners. The best protection comes from quality identity and access management (IAM) solutions that support zero trust.

Zero Trust is a cybersecurity model that assumes no user or device, whether inside or outside the organization, can be trusted by default. This model requires authentication and authorization for every access request, regardless of the user’s location, network, or device.

The Role of IAM

IAM plays a critical role in a zero trust security model. IAM ensures that only authorized individuals or devices can access sensitive data or systems by managing user identities, their roles and permissions, and access control policies. NetIQ offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that can support various aspects of IAM in a zero trust security model.

Access Management: NetIQ’s Access Management solutions deliver secure and simplified access to the right users, regardless of the device type or location, while minimizing risk to the organization. Our solutions can support Zero Trust by ensuring that only authorized individuals or devices can access sensitive data or systems.
What is Adaptive Access Management?

Identity Governance & Administration: NetIQ’s Identity Governance and Administration solutions allow organizations to govern access to resources, adapt to risk, and improve business agility. Our IGA supports Zero Trust by enabling organization to manage user identities, their roles and permissions, and access control policies.
What is Identity Governance & Administration?

Data Access Governance: NetIQ’s Data Access Governance solution extends identity and governance to unstructured data such as documents and files, providing the same level of control as services. This solution can support Zero Trust by enabling organizations to gain control over unstructured data and ensuring that only authorized individuals or devices can access sensitive information.
What is Data Access Governance?

Privileged Access Management: NetIQ’s Privileged Access Management solution enables organizations to gain visibility and control over privileged user activities to deliver actionable security intelligence and quick address evolving threats. This solution can support Zero Trust by ensuring that privileged accounts are monitored and access is granted only to authorized users or devices.
What Is Privileged Access Management?

Policy Orchestration: NetIQ’s Policy Orchestration solutions enable centralization of policy controls across hybrid IT environments, simplifying the administration of policy controls. NetIQ’s access management solutions support Zero Trust by enabling organizations to establish and enforce policies that control access to sensitive data and systems. 
What is Policy Orchestration?

Through integrating NetIQ’s portfolio of solutions and products into a Zero Trust security model with a focus on IAM, organizations can ensure that only authorized individuals or devices can access sensitive data or systems. NetIQ’s solutions can support various aspects of IAM in a Zero Trust security model, including role-based access control, MFA, continuous monitoring, and the principle of least privilege. Adopting a Zero Trust approach with IAM via NetIQ’s solutions can significantly enhance an organization’s security posture and mitigate the risk of a security breach. 

About NetIQ

Zero Trust is part of an overall digital transformation. As organizations move to the cloud and incorporate IoT, they can also make the switch to Zero Trust. Doing so will deliver an enhanced security level to the ecosystem and even cover legacy technologies as they transition. 

Our report on Zero Trust shows that 87% of enterprises are on the zero trust journey – having already rolled out zero trust or making plans for implementation. 

Identity and Access Management is the place to start to achieve Zero Trust. Our purpose at NetIQ is to help organizations protect sensitive information by automating privilege and access control to ensure appropriate access to applications, data, and resources. In other words, we help our customers achieve Zero Trust. 

You can learn more about us at our NetIQ homepage, and be sure to check out our video demos on the NetIQ Unplugged YouTube channel. 

NetIQ is now part of OpenText.